Baby Showers

A whole lot of tacky in one envelope.

I received a baby shower invitation today. The shower is the day before Easter, it has the 'book instead of a card' poem stuck in there with an extra little note at the end that said 'if you are buying diapers, any size except newborn would be appreciated'. Blech. I might take a card and a pack of newborn diapers as my gift.
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  • I hate when people do stuff the weekend of a holiday.  I'm almost always somewhere else since my family isn't local. 

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  • I kinda wish people had given us newborn diapers.  We got all size ones (which were greatly appreciated and we used every last one of them).  However, we bought into the hype that babies don't fit newborn diapers or newborn clothing.  Fortunately we were able snag some newborn diapers from the hospital to last us until DH could get to the store.  He also had to buy a couple of newborn sized sleepers because while we had a couple we didn't have enough.

    Moral of the story go ahead and buy people newborn size diapers and sleepers.  They can always exchange them after the birth if they don't need them.  
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  • ug I would hate to have to go somewhere on a holiday weekend....like you don't have enough going on! plus the tacky. If it's a friend or relative and the shower is local I'd probably just go and try to enjoy it. if out of town, no way.

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    mysticl said:
    I kinda wish people had given us newborn diapers.  We got all size ones (which were greatly appreciated and we used every last one of them).  However, we bought into the hype that babies don't fit newborn diapers or newborn clothing.  Fortunately we were able snag some newborn diapers from the hospital to last us until DH could get to the store.  He also had to buy a couple of newborn sized sleepers because while we had a couple we didn't have enough.

    Moral of the story go ahead and buy people newborn size diapers and sleepers.  They can always exchange them after the birth if they don't need them.  

    Same thing happened to us.  It wasn't just the hype, but my doctor kept telling me throughout the pregnancy that DD was going to be a large baby.  2 weeks before my due date they estimated her weight as 8lbs 5 oz.  I was terrified I was going to have a 10 pound baby!  When she was born (3 days early), she was 7lbs 8 ozs.  DH had to go buy newborn diapers and newborn size sleep sacks.  We cycled through the same 3 onesies and 3 ouftits for a good 3-4 weeks. 

    I totally agree that people should buy that stuff anyway and I'll probably be including newborn diapers in any shower gifts I give going forward...especially if I'm instructed not to.   :P

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  • My son was 8 lb 7 oz at birth. He lost almost a pound after birth. He definitely fit into newborn diapers for about a week. We tried size 1 but they were just too big. Had to send DH out for more NBs.
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